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...Hawes, '80, was the first hound in the hare and bound run yesterday, but, as he had not entered his name, the cap goes to E. E. Jack...
...half way to Allston, and then across the fields to Beacon Park, through the park around back of Allston, circling Corey Hill by a long detour, coming around by Brighton, and then down the railroad track half way to Allston, where the bags were left among the stockyards. The hounds were detained five or six minutes, hunting for the bags, which they were finally unable to find; so they broke at this point and came back over the Brighton bridge. The first hound, R. S. Hawes, came in a little over seventeen minutes behind the hares, while the remainder...
...Boston Gazette says: "A most amusing treat was afforded to those whose good fortune it was to be driving in the neighborhood of Cambridge on Thursday afternoon. Any one not knowing that Harvard students indulge among their other eccentricities in the game of 'Hare and Hounds,' might have supposed the Somerville Asylum or the School for Feeble-Minded Youth had let their young inmates out for an airing. 'Up hill and down dale,' 'in and out and round about' they went, while at intervals might be heard the inspiring sound, 'Tally Ho,' 'Tally Ho,' which to the initiated meant that...
...Clipper says of last week's hare and hound run: "The meet was on the whole a success, but runs should be held oftener, and thereby develop a branch of athletics in which American amateurs are very weak and deficient when compared with their English cousins...
About forty men started in the hares and hounds yesterday. The hares ran a course across the Cambridge common, up to the Botanic Garden, down Fayer-weather street and across the Lowell place to the marshes; after visiting all the ice-houses and barns in the neighborhood, they ran across into Brighton, through the marshes on that side of the river, and finally swam the river above the Brighton abattoir. The hounds used a plank in crossing the river, but lost some time at that place. The hares left their bags in the marsh, where they were finally found...